Mordaunt announces enquiry into rise in girls seeking gender reassignment

[OrchidInTheSun]

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/inquiry-into-surge-in-gender-treatment-ordered-by-penny-mordaunt-b2ftz9hfn

About time. She never did come on here for a web chat did she?

No, she didn't. I hope this means they're going to look properly at Rapid Onset Gender Dysphoria. Here's a sharetoken link: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/inquiry-into-surge-in-gender-treatment-ordered-by-penny-mordaunt-b2ftz9hfn?shareToken=8d952c84d7a5e63571f0e526f274275f

Thanks Empress. Don't know why mine didn't have a share token.

No problem Orchid. I do it by opening the article in a browser, clicking on the Share by email icon, then it creates a draft email with a sharetoken link in which I copy & paste.

Very pleased to see this and agree that ROGD should also be investigated.

As Equalities Minister I wonder if she's read the article that Oldstyle shared yesterday by Reading Uni (and UN) law professors Rosa Freedman and Rosemary Auchmuty.

www.feministcurrent.com/2018/09/14/never-mind-reforming-gender-recognition-act-theres-no-need-gender-recognition-certificates/

Those conducting the enquiry should be kept anonymous. Otherwise, they will be hounded.

This bit bowled me over:

Last month the junior equalities minister, Victoria Atkins, was criticised by transgender rights campaigners for expressing caution about those undergoing “serious and life changing” gender reassignment treatments.

Even expressing concern is frowned upon. Expressing concern!!

Who does this sort of enquiry, does anyone know? And do they tend to be reliable?

Or will they just talk to Mermaids and a few TRA groups who say this is just wonderful?

About bloody time! Medicalising young pp for life is a really serious thing and shouldn’t be done lightly. I really hope the tide is beginning to turn now.

About time. The language in there though 'assigned female at birth' and I wish they had expanded 'treatments' to say such as double mastectomy. If you are still generally oblivious you could be forgiven for thinking the girls are just trotting off for a few counselling sessions.

That's what I did! It's never not worked bore. Most mysterious

I wonder if this means issues around sexism are going to be seriously looked into. If trans had been an option when I was a teen, I might well have looked into it purely because of the sexual harassment I was subjected to on a daily basis.

Yes, indeed, Wrong. An inquiry would inevitably find teenaged girls trying to deal with the harassment, toxic srereotypes and dehumanisation we know so well. I think SPOFS is right, too. Misogynistic trans rights activists will be all over this.